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Auction: 1008 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 223

x Miniature Awards: The C.B. Group of Six to Colonel C.W.N. Guinness, Seaforth Highlanders The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) Badge, gold and enamel, with integral gold riband buckle; Afghanistan 1878-80, four clasps, Peiwar Kotal, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar, engraved in serif capitals ´Captn. C.W.N. Guinness. 72nd. Highrs.´; Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880; Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-El-Kebir, engraved in serif capitals ´Lt. Col: C.W.N. Guinness 1st. Sea: Highrs.´; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, Fifth Class Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive´s Star 1882, nearly extremely fine, mounted as worn, in fitted Hunt and Roskell, London, case (6) Estimate £ 500-700 C.B. London Gazette 5.1.1888 Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Charles Wolfran Nugent Guinness, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany´s). Colonel Charles Wolfran Nugent Guinness, C.B., commissioned Ensign 72nd Highlanders, 1860; Captain 1869; served with the regiment throughout the Afghan War (1878-80), with the Keorum, Kabul and Kabul-Kandahar Field Forces, part of the time as Brigade Major to Brigadier General Macpherson, V.C., C.B. (Later Major-General V.C., G.C.B., K.C.S.I.); present at the attack and capture of Peiwar Kotal, the repulse of the enemy´s attack on the rear-guard at Zaidabad, and in the engagements at Charasiab; served during the operations around Kabul in December 1879 (Mentioned in Despatches); accompanied Sir Frederick Roberts in the march to Kandahar, and was present at the battle of Kandahar (Mentioned in Despatches; Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel); served with the 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders in the Egyptian War, 1882 and was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir (Mentioned in Despatches; Order of Osmania); advanced Colonel 1885. Colonel C.W.N. Guinness´s full-sized awards were sold by Spink, 24.4.2008 (Lot 110).

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£650